Britain calls for sanctions against Eritrea Oct 9, 2009
President Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed spoke briefly at a breakfast for Books for Africa, a nonprofit that ships millions of donated books to African nations. The address was part of a three-day visit to the Twin Cities - home to the country's largest Somali population - to try to find solutions to the violence in Somalia. (Fresno Bee -- Nation)
Somalia president condemns Minn. terror recruiting Oct 5, 2009
President Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed spoke briefly at a breakfast for Books for Africa, a nonprofit that ships millions of donated books to African nations ... AP Photo - The president of Somalia, Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed, speaks at a Books for Africa breakfast Saturday, Oct. 3, 2009 in St. Paul during his three-day stop in the Twin Cities. (Fresno Bee -- Nation)
Somalia's president says terrorism growing there Oct 4, 2009
President Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed spoke briefly at a breakfast for Books for Africa, a nonprofit that ships millions of donated books to African nations ... "It is a foreign idea that is trying to take hold in Somalia. A foreign idea that is causing problems in different parts of the world."So we ask that Somalia not be left alone to fend for itself," he said. Amy Forliti AP Photo - The president of Somalia, Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed, speaks at a Books for Africa breakfast Saturday, Oct. 3, 2009... (Fresno Bee -- Nation)
Africa's hidden famine Jun 18, 2009
Tanzanian students celebrate receiving Books for Africa textbooks ... Books are so rare in many African countries that children celebrate receiving them as if it were Christmas morning, says Brad Mattson, a manager for Books for Africa, a nonprofit group that ships donated books to African countries ... " Is there a moral obligation to feed poor children's minds as well as their bodies? Books for Africa's leaders think so. The group says it shipped 2.7 million books to 24 African countries last... (CNN -- World)
WR students come up big with book drive Feb 12, 2009
The collections will be donated to Books for Africa as well as Samuel J. Green Charter School, a kindergarten through eighth-grade elementary school in New Orleans. Students spent Tuesday packing the books. (Milton Standard Journal, PA)
